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Record Nr.

UNINA9910812447903321

Autore

Sorensen Clark W. <1948->

Titolo

Over the mountains are mountains : Korean peasant households and their adaptations to rapid industrialization ; with a new preface by the author / / Clark W. Sorensen

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Seattle, : University of Washington Press, c2013

ISBN

0-295-80465-3

Edizione

[1st ed.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (340 p.)

Collana

Korean studies of the Henry M. Jackson School of International Studies

Disciplina

307.7/2/095195

Soggetti

Peasants - Korea (South)

Economic development - Social aspects

Rural families - Korea (South)

Korea (South) Rural conditions Case studies

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Originally published: 1988.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references (p. 281-294) and index.

Nota di contenuto

Foreword -- Acknowledgments -- Prologue: April 28, 1971 -- Act I: London. 1. Up from Escatawpa -- 2. The apprentice puppet masters -- 3. His friend Philby -- Act II Washington. 4. Spies on the rise -- 5. Operations success -- 6. A new life -- Act III: Mexico City. 7. The American proconsul -- 8. AMCIGAR -- 9. Spy as poet -- 10. Knight -- 11. Darkness -- 12. Wedding in Las Lomas -- 13. "You might have had a Seven days in May" -- 14. A blip named Oswald -- 15. Out of the loop -- 16. "The effect was electric" -- 17. "A transparent operation" -- 18. "I share that guilt" -- 19. An anonymous warning -- 20. The padrinos -- 21. Night of Tlatelolco -- 22. "The sludge of spies and knaves" -- 23. A fall in the garden -- Afterword -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index.

Sommario/riassunto

A description of the economic and ecological organization of rural Korean domestic groups and an analysis of their adaption to the changes brought about by Korea's rapid industrialization.